"* V tiussia, Dismayed by Oncoming Hun Horde, Determines to Defend Country From Enemy Invasion jfe HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH M ®K LXXXVII No. 46 20 E&GES BOLSHEVIKI CHANGE MIND; WILL RESIST GERMAN INVASION Opposition Will Be Given the Teuton Army Sweeping Eastward Into the Heart of Great Russia, Is Decision Reached by Bolsheviki Leaders; Chaotic Condition / Exists in Russian Navy WEIGHT IS GIVEN TO RUMORS THAT TROTZKY WILL RESIGN i foreign Minister's Name Is Missing From Proclamation Ordering That Hun Advance Be Resisted; Trotzky Reported to Have Cast D eciding Vote in Favor of Accepting German Peace By Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 22. —"Defense to the death" against Germany is ordered in the proclamation of the Russian commissioners, Reuter's Petrograd correspondent telegraphs. The commissioners ap peal to the soldiers to destroy railways and provi sions, and compel the bourgeoise to dig trenches under penalty of death. Petrograd, Thursday, Feb. 21. —(Midnight)—A proclamation ordering resistance to the German advance, calling on all Russians to defend the fatherland and declaring Petrograd in a state of siege was issued tonight from the Smolny Institute, the Bolshevik headquarters. The proclamation was issued at the order of the People's Commissaries and is signed by Premier Lenine and En sign Krylenko, the Bolshevik commander in chief. The Bolshevik! government again has changed its mind and has or dered that opposition be given to tho German army now sweeping eastward into the heart of Great Russia. All Russians arc summoned to the defense of their country in a proclamation signed by Premier and Knsign ICrylenko, com mander-in-chief of the Bolshevik! armies. Petrograd has been declared to be in a state of siege. Germany is advancing into Rus sia to restore the monarchy and the privileges of the landowners and the capitalistic classes, the Bolsheviki government in Petrograd declares in a proclamation to the people, and it, calls upon them to resist the German armies and defend the republic "to the death." All Russians must co-operate in the dfeffinse, the bourgeoise classes by compulsion ir necessary the official proclamation declares. Petrograd has been declared in a state of siege. Explicit instructions are given the peasants and workers to take all measures to prevent valuable prop erty from falling into the hands of the Germans. Railroad rolling stock and food supplies are particularly mentioned. Everything must bo done, the people are adjured, to keep Ger man militarism from crushing the working classes in Great Russia and the Ukraine. Gorman Navy Aids As the German army advances, the German navy is aiding in the campaign against Ksthonia and Petrograd by investing Peval, the .second in importance of the naval basfes on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. German troops have bene landed there and forty live German warships are nearing Ihe harbor. The Russian navy, how ever. may offer little resistance.' It | is reported as being completely dis- : organized, both as to equipment and I morale. Removal of Russian war ships at Reval and Helsingfors to Kronstadt is considered unlikely be cause they have been idle so long. In taking Minsk and Rovno and in pushing their campaign swiftly on When you buy a THRIFT STAMP you arc paying for five 4 shells for a machine gun or rifle. Isn't that worth while? i THE weatheH For lliirrislinric nnd vlrlnltyi Cold Jliltl Hllitw, with ftlialitly ivnrinrr Mrnllirr to-nlichtt *nturduy un settled and warmrr. For F.HMern I'rnnn.vlvnnlni < loudv nnd warmer o-ntKht, probably IlKht niiow) Km tic nouthras't Inds. Aotc—l.egul holiday! no river re port or detailed wenthrr con dition*. Temperature: 8 n. ra., 2fl. Nuni ltl*m, CiSS n. m.t setM, 6i27 p. m. Mooni Full moon, February 25. 44 p. in. Itlver Ntncei 14.1 feet nbore lon- Mater mark. Ymlrrday'a Weather lllKhrl Irmprmt urr. It). l owent temperature. 10. Mean temperature, 14. Aormal trmperuturc, 31. i other sections of the long front the Germans had captured large quan tities of war material, including more than 1,300 gains and 9,000 prisoners. Trot/.ky May Resign Weight is given to the reports that Foreign Minister Trotzky will resign by the fact that his name is mis - [Continued on Page 10.] ; British Forces Capture i Ancient City of Jericho; I Little Resistance Offered ), .London The British have captur ( j ed Jericho, in Palestine, the war of f I fice reports. 'i Since the capture of Jersalem the British have been pushing steadily ahead, striking out to the north and east. Official statements from Lon don in tho last few days have re ported rapid progress, and apparent ly the Turks have offered no deter mined resistance. I Aside from its historical import ance. in connection with the British plan to free the Italy Land from the domination of tlio/Turks, the. capture | of Jericho is of little significance, it consists merely of a group of squalid 1 hovels and a few shops, with about 300 inhabitants. Its chief strategic , value lies in the fact that it gives the British domination of the valley of Jordon, and also control of a net j work of highways radiating from tho j town. A further advance eastward i of twenty-live miles, however, would take the Britisli to the railway from Damascus to Mecca, which would cut oft the Turks' line of communication with Arabia and greatly assist the re volting Arab tribes which are co operating with the British. Jericho . is near the northern extremity of the | Dead Sea, fourteen miles north east '■ of Jerusalem. The ancient Jericho, which was sit i Vr,vi„ tO ,.. the T est of the modern t Jericho, was a town of considerable I sizs. It was the first Canaan Ite city | inTof trunufets." 0 by the Americans Kill One Hun And Capture Another in Patrol Battle J}y Associated Press With the American Army in ! !• ranee, Feb. -22.—1n a patrol light Americans trom units under instruc . tion In the famous Chcmin-dcs- Damcs sector, killed one German and captured another. One American was slightly wounded. This is the first time it has been permitted to reveal the fact that new American units, have entered the line. The troops have been there for some time, suffering slight casu alties, but their presence was kept secret until it was certain the enemy knew they were there. Details of the patrol tight ure as yet unavailable beyond the unofficial report that the prisoner taken was captured single-handed by a young American from one of the New England states, who, during the en gagement, dropped into a shell hole on top of a German hiding there and later brought him in. The Ameriea.n forces entered the line on one of the darkest of nights through a shell-pitted region dotted with shell-wrecked towns. The French general commanding the sector, a hero of the Maine, greeteil them as comrades in arms and kissed the American flag. HARRISBURG, PA.,FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1918. FLOOD VICTIMS APPEAL TO CITY FOR ASSISTANCE Mayor Keistcr Receives Urg ent Appeal From Lock Haven | PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING River Choked With Ice Here, Keeps Within Its Banks Lock Haven, seriously flooded and almost Isolated, has appealed to Har risburg for relief. The Mayor of Lock Haven at noon to-day called up Mayor Keister, of Harrisburg, and asked him if this city cannot come to the aid of hun dreds of people of that town who j are suffering severely from hunger 1 and cold. Provisions, blankets and medical supplies are needed imme diately and later pumps will be re quired to clear cellars of water. The condition is such, the Mayor says, that prompt measures must be taken to prevent the homeless from starva tion or freezing. Mayor Keister got at once into touch with the State Health Depart ment, which rendered such prompt and valuable aid when the town of Austin was swept away some years ago, and also called upon Andrew Patterson, president of the Harris burg Chamber of Commerce, and j Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert, head of the I Harrisburg Red Cross chapter, to ! co-operato in everyway. Mayor Keister got busy at once on the measures to be taken for the alleviation of suffering in Lock Ha ven, rendered heatless.lightless and almost foodless by the high water and ice of the past three days. The Red Cross Society opened its head- [Continued on Page 10.] CITY PARKS AND STREETS USED AS PUBLIC DUMPS Oflicials Find Winter's Refuse Scattered About in Profusion I ADMIT NASTY SITUATION Council's Failure to Provide Collections Brings Inev itable Result | City officials yesterday afternoon | on their ash Inspection trip over the city were shown a series of public : dumps in parks, street intersections, j on pavements, city school property— j conditions unprecedented in the hls | lory of the city. | Commissioner Lynch had charge :of tho trip. With him were the other three commissioners. Mayor | Keister and other city officials. That | Mr. Lynch has been doing some pri j vate investigation work was evident j from the start as the autos sped J over a definite route, passing places | where the worst conditions exist, j While the city officials on the trip j admitted the situation was bad, fContinucd on Page I.] Rifle Expert to Speak Before Commerce Chamber j The Chamber of Commerce is j sending out a special call for the llarrisburg public to get in on an uncommonly interesting event which j takes place at 8 p. m. to-morrow at the Board of Trade building. It is called a "smoker" and it is free to everybody who will call at head quarters in the Dauphin building, or write or phone for tickets. The entertainment committee has been most fortunate in geting Major W. A. Garrett, general manager of the Remington Arms Company and the man who is now making the new Enfield rifles for our forces In France. Major Garrett is not so sup pressed as the usual military man. Ho has a rare eloquenfte and such a definite knowledge from first, hand of the situation in France and every one with a friend or a relatives "over there" will be re paid by hearing him. Sent by our government as a member of the commission of railroad executives charged with determining what rail road facilities would be needed by Pershing, Major Garrett, a former executive of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, will have much to say that will interest railroad *nen. MADE DEMOCRACY i- ' J^P &■ % \ ]\ . , TV' G'tovcuca?b to 'Ycw-fuh^tcov GREAT leader of men, we have come.' We have come to the crossway and left it behind With its weakness, its trembling and fear, And we're paying the debt to the great Lafayette, For America's sons are not men to forget When the fate of a nation draws near. Great leader 6f men we have come! Through highways and byways of struggle mid stress, Through war years and peace years till now With the eyes of the world on our dear flag, unfurled; With our answer, flame-tipped, in the great vortex hurled; Thy name is the pledge of our vow. Great leader of men we have come! To the simple deep secrets of God-given life Where we glimpse through the veil of the dawn Till the forms of our dead and the blood they have shed Form the beacon of light by which we are led With the sword of America drawn! ANNA HAMILTON WOOD. Written l'or tUc Telegraph SURVEY OF FOOD SUPPLY IN CITY SHOWS PLENTY | General Conditions Found Good by Donald McCor mick in Investigation j A survey of the food supply for Harrlsburg and vicinity lias been made by the county food administra tor among the wholesale dealers and millers, it showed more than 2,000,- 000 pounds of staple commodities on hand at noon to-drfy. The survey does not include the stock held by grocers nor those commodities sup plied the city by the dealers and farmers at city markets. These figures indicate, said Don j aid McCormick, that there is an am ! pie supply of all foods on hand. | Dealers state that the amounts vary ; during the week, but that the totals i given Indicate the general conditions iof those several commodities. The I supply of potatoes is given as good, ! though no accurate figures could be supplied, owing to the fact that many grocers receive their supplies direct from farmers, while a large number of consumers buy direct from the producers at the city markets. The amounts of the various staples on hand arc as follows: Flour, 200,000 pounds. Corn meal, 20,000 pounds. <>at meal and rolled oats, 80,000 pounds. Beans, 119.000 pounds. | Sugar, 63,200 pounds. Meat, 1,031,000 pounds (sufficient; for a month or six weeks). l,ard, 30,000 pounds. Canned vegetables and fruits, j I 634,000 pounds. Despairing Cry Reaches Emperor William's Heart! fly Associated Press Amsterdam. Feb. 28. Emperor William, according to the Frankfurter /.eltiing. replied tft a message from the 1,11 berk Senate, appealing to him to help the Ksthonlans, as follows: "Your words have found a lively eeho m my heart. The despairing cry of distress which Is ever more urgent ly reaching our ears from* the Baltic rountry shall not go unheard. FfTcc tlve measures must be taken to safe guard the tortured population from the burning and plundering or robbery hordes and end the state of completo lawlessness." CITY TO RALLY AT PATRIOTIC MEET MONDAY Noted Speakers to Appear on Platform Here Harrisburg'* Safety Commit | tee will take possession of Chestnut j .Street Hull Monday night for a real ; jubilee mass meeting, to which the public is cordially invited, and it is fair to predict that every one will have a. "lively and interesting time. It is the plan of Chairman Charles C. Stroh to have an old-time com munity song festival, reviving some of the Civil War popular airs and led by a good band. Tile singing will start promptly at 7.30. The list of speakers should attract any one with a desire for accurate intonnation and those who merely ask to b e entertained. Harrisburg will have its first peek at Howard Ilelnz, l'ederal Food Administrator for Pennsylvania, who knows about as much as Hoover concerning the. intricacies of this job. Ueutenarit Sutton will tell something of genu ine war adventure, for he lost a band in an individual battle with a Turk- 1 Ish soldier In the (tulipoli campaign, lie bus been through SSeppelin raids, in the trenches and pretty much ev erywhere in the war activities. I,ast, but not least, there will be CSoorge Wharton Pepper, chairman of the Public Safety Committee for this state and an eminent Philadelphia lawyer. Allied Ministers Will Remain in Petrograd Unless Germans Enter By Associated Press J,ondon, Feb. 22.—The Allied em bassies in Petrograd, according to a dispatch from the Russian capital to the Morning Post dated Monday, have been besieged by anxious in quirers, who have been assured that as far as Is known at present the embassies will quit the city If the Germans come, but not otherwise. The Allies, it is added, have no in tention of abandoning their once greatest ally. I ENGINE WRECKED CARRYING BOY TO CITY AMBULANCE I Engineer Critically Hurt in Crash at Reading Depot LAD HAS ARMS CUT OFF Fire Alarm Sent in When Escaping Steam Alarms Workmen In a double accident on the Phila delphia and Reading Railway this morning, Theodore Levan, 627 Ben ton street, aged 10, and Joseph P. Schell, 1512 State street, engineer, were seriously injured add were rushed to the Harrisburg Hospital for treatment. The Levan boy received his injur ies when a train ran over him after he had fallen off a moving coal car on to the tracks east of tower MB, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty seventh streets. Schell received his injuries when his engine, on which he was rushing the injured boy to the hospital, crashed into the Read ing station, tearing off the cab. Steam escaping from the engine, I i which pushed its way through the bumper, the iron gate and the plat form where the passengers take the train, clear back to the stone wall .of the station, and coal flyiug from [Continued on Page 20.] DEMAND FOR HOMES IN CITY EXCEEDSSUPPLY | Even Apartments Arc Hard to Find by Persons Who Must Move April 1 SITUATION IS SERIOUS • Realty Men Expect No Relief Until After the War There are no houses for rent in Harrisburg. Even apartments to which per sons, who must move April 1, have been turning in increasing numbers because of the scarcity of dwellings, are almost impossible to get. A decided Increase in the popula tion caused by the unprecedented prosperity of the industries and business houses and the great op "erations of the munitions plants is said to have made the demand for homes in the city and suburbs with in a live cent trolley car limit great er than ever before in the city's his tory. As hundreds of leases expire April 1 the shortage is said to be serious. Sec No Relief Realty men to-day were of the belief that there will be no mater ial relief from the situation until after the war. Whatever number of houses may be built until that time will not be large enough to make ; a material difference, it was eaid. Building operations necessarily will be held up to some extent because of the uncertainty of getting shipment of materials and the labor short age. The number of houses listed for | rent by various real estate men to day consisted almost entirely of dwellings with a rental of J4O or more a month. The number of dwellings of medium rental that are being advertised are negligible and lor the first .time in years persons are advertising in an effort to rent either an apartment or a dwelling. Intending to put an advertisement for the sale of his small house out on Allison Hill, a resident of the city had the misfortune to see the no tice inserted as "for rent." It ap peared in an evening paper and be tween 8 o'clock and 10 that night his phone rang exactly thirty-two times. Eighteen more calls jangled next morning. Germans Take English in Raiding Party i?>- Associated Press Feb. 22.—"Early last night a largo party of the enemy raided two of our posts in the neighbor hood of the Ypres-Roulors railway and a few of our men are missing," says to-day's War Office report. "A raid attempted by the enemy early yesterday morning agalnßt posts held by Belgian troops tn the Merekem sector was repulsed by ar tillery and machine-gun tire," Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION FIRST CONTRACTS FOR BIG MILITARY DEPOTS HERE LET James Black, Contractor; Aviation Depot Additions at Middletown to Cost $800,000; First Unit of New Warehouses Will Cost $750,000$ of Brick and Steel Construction; Committee at Washington Hopes to Switch Site Back to East Bank of Susquehanna Washington, Feb. 22. —Con- tract for the enlargement of the aviation depot, near Middle town, has been let to James Black, of St. Louis, at an esti mated expense of SBOO,OOO. Black is also given the con tract for the first of the big ware houses to be erected in the vicinity of Ilarrisburg, where it is planned to establish great military depots'. This first unit will cost $750,000. This is only the beginning of the Harrisburg development, it is understood, which it is ex pected will run very high into the millions. The work is to be completed, if possible, in 90 days and Mr. Black has left for Harrisburg to inspect the pro posed sites. These structures arc to be of brick and steel con struction. The foregoing dispatch from Washington leaves no doubt that the. Government means to go ahead im mediately with its program in the i Qirlrlr irlrHc ± ' & m . W eyo 4* CHAMBER TO AID FLOOD SUFFERERS 4 X Karri'bur-,'—The Chamber of Commerce late this ait- JT | ernoou agreed l to underwrite the Lock Haven relief fund "£ I T ot ?'.OOO Contributions to the fund arc being sought X i;| I*l* for the wcrk. Y X UKRANIANS JOIN GERMANS 4 London—Austrian and German troops are advancing • in the south simultaneously witlj the Germans in the north i troops arc reported to-have joincrl | them nst the BAlsh'eviki, according to * Petroerad fl 4 £ dispel 1 ■ the Morning Post. The Polish Legions of j T the Russian army have offered an armistice in the pre ' gt vailir.g civil wir on condition of free passage in any X directi a and now are trying to reach Warsaw. 4* MEATLESS DAYS EFFECT BIG SAVING 4* Vs ' • Meatless days in the United State Jiave £* fsa e 10.000,000 pounds of beef in four months, the food 2* * admniistration announced to-day. During this perio L X 16. ,0 : 3 pounds of beef were exported to the allit X | 4* together with 40,000,000 pounds of pork products. T RETAIN SECURITIES PROVISION j ' 4 Washington—The Senate retained the provision • . authori.: ng the President tb buy and sell railroad I f securitic • with $500,000,000" revolving fund, defeat :ig 55 Xto i" - ■r.T.itich by Senator Kirby, Democrat, of Arka .s. j| <4,- to :'rikc it out. > Ifc T 11j .AL r : CONDITIONS SHOW IMPROVEMENT T (f v.. hington—Health conditions in ail American 4 t Army camps showed decided improvement during the JL ■ 4* v.cck enrii.-.g February 15 and for that week there was a w tb i lower .-; .'h rate trr all camps than at any other time J since la it November Deaths,in all camp.-, Regular Army, ▼ | <| N.r i 31. .1 Guard and National Army, for the week, | I 177 of which 96 resulted from Fewer new X' jr cases of the more serious diseases;-especially pneumonia' J f l|t and meningitis, were reported as compared with last £ week. The regular's show the highest death rate—l 2.9 per Jfc | year. £ 1- f MARRIAGE LICENSES £ Oainnn I'nrknril, HnrrKbiir*, nnd Vlritlnla ||, TIIItHii Ulna <■* hum ton. !¥. V.I Knrl K. *mullim unil lOrmp K. Klurte. Netv < titnl.-r- \ i land. Henjnmln A. \V>INM find nr> IS. HlrKel, l.,kei. <<>„„,l,| u , 1 *#* (iromr ti. Weber, \\ r( K.lrvlt v. un.l l;,l„ u 11. Kenford t'liVm yenr, I njellc- vicinity of Harrisburg. Mr. Black could not be located by reporters in Harrisburg tb-day, although it is un derstood that he and Major Gray, the engineer in charge, went in com pany over both the Middletown and tlie talked-of New Cumberland sites. Financial reports say that Mr. Blaclc is a masonry builder and con tractor of high rating with offices in St. L>ouis, Detroit, Chicago, ton. Omaha and Seattle. It is under stood that he has the backing of the great City National Bank, of New York. Whether or not the military de pots will be erected at Middletown or between New Cumberland and Marsh Run, on the west side of the K, [Contnlued on Page B.] * Nine Members of Family Dead in Morning Fire By Associated Press Peabody, Mass., Feb. 22. Nine per sons, all lAembera of the family of Morris Miller, lost their lives in a lire which destroyed the Miller home, near here, early to-day. Reuben Miller, a boy of 19, who was employed on a neighbor's farm, was the only member of the family who escaped. The police list of dead follows: Morris Miller. Mrs. Miller, Sadie Miller, 20; Rosie Miller, 15; Minnie Miller, 42; Samuel Miller, 8; Harry Miller, 5; Esther Miller, 2. and a baby girl two months old.
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